We started our trip to the far off province. This time it was a little bit civilized than the little town my Dara was living. We settled in a small wooden house where it has a little garden. I sought approval from the owner of the house that I would be planting the herb on the mini garden. Seung-hyun and I proceeded to the town hospital and escorted to the ward where dengue victims werre attended. We spoke to the hospital head and agreed to help us out with the research. We handed the waivers to the patients that had consented with taking the Euphorbia Hirta fluids. We also went around to some isolated rural areas and visited families that were affected with the disease but could not afford to go to a hospital. Few days had past, we had finished gathering enough respondents and started to extract the fluids from the plants. We had to scavenge for more of the Euphorbia Hirta since the garden had not fully develop the plants yet.

The research went on for a couple months. Seung-hyun and I had overworked for the research. It was a tiring fulfillment we both felt. During our research, I would write letters to Dara and tell her about the progress that we were making. It saddens me that she wouldn’t respond to my letters. I often have plenty of sleepless nights which I would just take to finish talling the data we collected. “Mr. Kwon, please have some rest. Lately, you are sleeping late and over working yourself.” He got up and sat at the edge of his bed. “I’m sorry. If I woke you up, Mr. Choi. I’ve been sleepless lately.” I said with a stern look. He made a smirk and looked at my face with dreamy eyes and said, “You must’ve caught some kind of a disease.” I was taken a back and let out a confused look. He placed two fingers on his chin still with a smirk on his face and said, “You showed all possible symptoms: restless nights, overly working, checking the calendar every minute. Yes! You have the case of love sickness... Unfortunately, Mr. Kwon, t